Cybermat47 wrote:I think a US studio could make a LAEM on a similar budget, but I doubt that a US studio would be willing to risk making a movie with naked a comatose 14 year-old being masturbated to by their 14 year-old friend, while a grown man sticks his hand inside the belly of another naked 14 year old, before the comatose 14 year old is horrifically torn apart, and the masturbating 14 year old sees that the 14 year old with a hand in her belly is now a giant naked 14 year old.

I'd hope if they ever made this in to a movie or mini series that they would not put in the hosbital scene at all along with Gendo touching up Rei because the audience online backlash would be utterly horrific even more so among the people who have never seen the series or EOE. If GOT has shown anything its that audiences do not like rape for kink or scenes like it done for shock value and it can cause sponsor websites to pull out in a heart beat and leave the series or movie high and dry. That's not to say that these themes can't be handled well, as in the right show runners hands they can work seamlessly but in the wrong hands its a disaster waiting to happen.

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silvermoonlight wrote:I'd hope if they ever made this in to a movie or mini series that they would not put in the hosbital scene at all along with Gendo touching up Rei because the audience online backlash would be utterly horrific even more so among the people who have never seen the series or EOE.

Yep, those scenes would never be put in a US LAEM - which is why a US LAEM can't be done properly. Those scenes are pretty important story-wise.

I always considered that more of a dark comedy, not a serious drama. (Or, at least a very silly, psudo-Final Destination-style flick.) Yuko Miyamura's recorded video at the end of Act 1 of Battle Royale explaining how to play the game kind of established that tone for the rest of the film's run time. If Evangelion were adaptaed as a dark comedy like Battle Royale was, then maybe we could get it off the ground. But I'm not sure a dark comedy is in keeping with Eva's recognizable tone.

Game of Thrones seems to love tossing kids into **** situations, and I think a series, or even a mini-series, may prove a better format for Evangelion.Considering we're in a Golden age of television, with all sorts of small IP being adapted (while Hollywood failed to adapt GiTs well), it may even be preferable.

I never made the argument that bad things happening to kids makes for unbelievable television. 3 or 4 kids being solely responsible for the literal salvation of the entire planet, on the other hand, tends to stretch the limits of believability in a live-action setting, especially when there are other adults in the show who arguably have more competency under stress that the teenagers do. The dynamic between teenagers and adults presented in Eva is strikingly different from the dynamic between teenagers and adults shown in GoT. GoT revels in just having bad things happen to everyone, with no one character being powerful enough to become a universal savior. Eva, on the other hand, centers its entire narrative on one 14-year-old boy literally becoming the unwilling savior for the entire planet. This difference negates any argument that GoT uses its younger cast members for similar thematic (and therefore narrative) purposes as Eva.

I think we'd be served well enough in seeing significant Eva influence make its way into independent live-action films. Tribute would work out far better than adaptation, especially if gaijin are involved.

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I see it working if it something that adapts the essence, but does its own thing, adapted to the live action medium.

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I thought pacific rim was just all right. I mean it was fun and all but it isn't Evangelion. I mean what what Stanley Kubrick's dead body was brought back and said, "Guys the rebuilds were a mistake. Anno hold my beer."

I don't know if Kubrick was that much into character studies like Evangelion. He had a much colder style. Though I see it cinematically.Pacific Rim was more mecha in general imo.

I was thinking more of the psychological aspect.

Shinji: "Sooner or later I'll be betrayed... And they'll leave me. Still... I want to meet them again, because I believe my feelings at that time were real."Ryuko: "I'm gonna knock ya on your asses!"-Asuka: THINK IN GERMAN!!! -Shinji: Öh... Baumkuchen...Hayashida: "As game developers, our work is special. All of us here can put smiles on very many people's faces with our work.""In any case, it (Kill la Kill) is the greatest work of fiction ever written and should be taught in schools." -Squigsquasher~('.'~) (~'.')~ Dancin Kirby

There is a famous art house miniseries called the Dekalog. Its the only Tv Series on Criterion Collection. If they were ever to remake Evangelion in live action maybe they could do something like that.

kuribo-04 wrote:I don't know if Kubrick was that much into character studies like Evangelion.

I agree with that to an extent. Although I have seen Dr. Strangelove and there was a little bit of character studies but never to extent of evangelion.